Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Presumed Innocent/Innocent



Just so you don't think I am such a high brow, I thought I would throw my 2 cents in about the book I finished before Bush's "Decision Points". It was Scott Turow's long overdue sequel to "Presumed Innocent", called "Innocent". Although you probably don't need to read "Presumed Innocent" to understand "Innocent", it wouldn't hurt as it is mostly the same players 20 years later. Rusty Sabich (the lead character in both books) is now a judge, and is running for the Illinois Supreme Court when his wife Barbara dies of apparent natural causes. But Rusty does not call anybody for 24 hours after he finds her, which people, mostly the people who prosecuted him in "Presumed Innocent", find highly suspicious....and we are off to the races. Did he or did he not kill his wife? The book is not written in sequential order, meaning it jumps all over time, before she died, after she died etc. I found this a little disconcerting at first, and a little confusing, but eventually I got the hang of it, and was able to follow the train of thought. I really enjoyed "Presumed Innocent", it was one of those books that stuck with me, and I have to say the sequel was worth waiting for. There is the twist at the end, which I thought I had figured out (unlike the first book which totally floored me), but even though I had parts of it figured out, it still managed to surprise me. And I can see a trilogy in the making when Turow begins to write about the son Nat, and how the family secrets may eventually affect him.

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  1. I admire you mom. You're the smartest person I know. :-)

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